The Ku Klux Klan conjures images of a secret society entrenched in the culture of the deep south of the 1950s whose mission was to terrorize anybody the organization deemed a threat to the American way of life.

A 2-year-old boy strapped inside a child seat in a minivan outside his Macomb County home for hours Tuesday died of hyperthermia or heat stroke and was dead for several hours before he was found, Shelby Township Police Chief Roland Woelkers said.